Vincent van Gogh | Cafe Terrace at Night
Vincent van Gogh | Cafe Terrace at Night
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- 100% hand-painted oil on canvas
- Delivered Framed & Ready to Hang!
- We stretch (Gallery Wrap) every canvas
- Hanging wire is attached to the back
- Any questions? Please call us on 1300 90 21 53
Framing options
Choose your finish from the options above. You only need to pick one, and the painting arrives ready for the wall.
Option 1. Outer frame, delivered framed
A gold ornate, silver ornate, modern flat black or modern flat gold frame around the stretched painting. Delivered framed and ready to hang.
Option 2. Gallery wrap, stretched and ready to hang
The frameless modern look. The canvas is stretched on a timber frame with the painted edge wrapped around, and the hanging wire is attached on the back.
Option 3. Rolled canvas, frame it yourself
The painting comes rolled in a protective art tube so you can take it to your local framer.
How our paintings are made
- 100% hand-painted in oils on canvas by university-trained professional artists. No prints, no computer-generated technique.
- Painted to order for you, then stretched or framed and checked before dispatch. Allow 21 to 28 days.
- Proofs on request. Our artists rarely need changes, but if you would like to see your painting before it ships, just ask.
Delivery and guarantee
- Free tracked delivery Australia-wide. GST included, nothing more to pay at the door.
- 30-day money-back guarantee on every order.
- Australian owned, Melbourne-based since 2013, with a local contact you can reach on 1300 90 21 53.
About Cafe Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh
Painted in September 1888 on the Place du Forum in Arles, Café Terrace at Night was the first canvas in which Van Gogh set a scene beneath a star-filled sky — an idea he returned to the following year in The Starry Night.
He worked outdoors at night and made a point of using no black at all. The darkness is built entirely from deep blues and violets; the terrace glows in gas-lit yellow and orange, and the two are pushed hard against each other so the light seems to radiate off the canvas. The cobbles catch it. A few figures sit at the tables, and a waiter in white stands among them.
Van Gogh wrote to his sister that he was enormously enjoying painting on the spot at night. The café still stands in Arles, restyled for the visitors the painting brings.
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What makes this painting hard to reproduce is that there is no black in it. The night is built from blue and violet sitting directly against gas-lit yellow, and the glow comes entirely from those colours being pitched against each other at the right intensity. Printing shifts that balance — inks darken the blues and the terrace stops radiating. Mixed and laid down by hand in oils, the relationship holds, and the light behaves the way Van Gogh built it.
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